Nicoletta Cannone an ecologist at the University of Insubria, Italy, and her colleagues measured the growth of Antarctic’s only two native flowering plants, Deschampsia Antarctica, also known as ...

As plants such as Antarctic hairgrass, Deschampsia antarctica, the cushion plant, Colobanthus quitensis and lots of mosses emerge from under snow in late spring, they will be exposed to maximum UV ...

It’s home to an array of liverworts, lichens and fungi, as well as two flowering plants — Deschampsia antarctica and Colobanthus quitensis — which grow in the South Orkney Islands ...